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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

SF Gate: Trader Joe's named best discount store in US

SF Gate: 100 homes impacted as summer flash flood hits outside Tahoe area

San Jose Mercury News: Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report

SF Gate: In shock move, California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city

East Bay Times: Families look back on legacy, tragedy of Port Chicago military disaster after sailors exonerated

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Courthouse News Service: 1918 virus used to develop promising universal flu vaccine

Politico: Trump wins round in libel suit against Pulitzer Prize Board over Russia stories

AP News: Rescue teams find hiker who was missing for 2 weeks in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge

AP News: Salt Lake City wildfire prompts mandatory evacuations uphill from Utah’s state capitol

BBC: Malaysia tracks down missing oil tanker which fled after collision

KQED: California Sent a Mentally Ill Man to a State Hospital and Charged Him Nearly $770,000

OPB: Researchers find extreme heat impacts tree recovery even more than drought

OPB: Conflagration Act invoked for Durkee Fire in Eastern Oregon, now at 110K acres burned

The Guardian: Montana man kills grizzly bear that attacked while he was picking berries

The Guardian: British sprinter slows before finish line and gets overtaken in 'disaster' race – video

Sacramento Bee: FDA elevates recall in 7 states of California farm’s rice, which may contain foreign ‘rodent’ object

CBS News : Black families fight for California Gold Country land taken from their ancestors

The Guardian: World leaders react to Biden’s decision to exit presidential race

KRCR: Northstate faces wildfire risks from new Bay Area-bound transmission lines

Sunday, July 14, 2024

The Guardian: Scientists make DNA discovery that could help find pancreatic cancer cure

Press Democrat: Aircraft damages power lines near Sonoma; 32 PG&E customers without power in area

Press Democrat: Lake County ATV rollover kills Michigan man, injures 4 children

Press Democrat: Tensions flare over the public’s right to use privately owned Russian River beaches

SF Gate: Man charged with allegedly kidnapping teen girl at SF BART station

SF Gate: Human jawbone found on Humboldt beach tied to boat with strange history

SF Chronicle: Several premier Tahoe trails to see controversial change

NPR: 8 things to know about the drug known as 'gas station heroin'

BBC: Trump calls on Americans to 'stand united' after assassination attempt

NY Times : A Leading Environmental Group Calls on Biden to Step Aside

CNN: 21 people die as school building collapses in Nigeria when students were taking exam

NY Times : Is Cutting Off Your Family Good Therapy?

NY Times : After Homelessness Ruling, Cities Weigh Whether to Clear Encampments

CNN: Dead seals on Cape Town beaches raise fears about widening rabies outbreak

CNN: On NYC beaches, angry birds fight drones patrolling for sharks and struggling swimmers

Smithsonian Magazine: Gut Microbes Could Help Diagnose Autism, Study Suggests

Smithsonian Magazine: Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Ceremonial Temple in Peru

The Guardian: Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

KOMO News: Costco raises annual membership fees for the 1st time since 2017

KPTV: 11-year-old boy, man missing after boat capsizes off Oregon coast in ‘graveyard of the Pacific’

Oregon Public Broadcasting: New pests threaten Portland’s trees. They could make future heat waves even hotter

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Firefighters battle expanding Larch Creek Fire, now estimated at 16K acres

The Oregonian: Two new cases of measles confirmed in Oregon

AP News: SpaceX rocket accident leaves company’s Starlink satellites in wrong orbit

AP News: Dollar General agrees to pay $12 million fine to settle alleged workplace safety violations

Reuters: Vietnam landslides kill 11 after heavy rain

Reuters: ‘An extremely aggressive inferno’: Fire menaces eastern Canadian community

Reuters: Gaza officials say 90 Palestinians killed as Israel targets Hamas military chief

KCRA: Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued for several Northern California counties

The Guardian: California: first death of wildfire season as body found in burned-out home

The Guardian: Republican senator Susan Collins says she will not vote for Trump